A dental implant is a titanium post (like a tooth root) that is surgically positioned into the jawbone beneath the gum line that allows your dentist to mount replacement teeth or a bridge into that area. An implant doesn’t come loose like a denture can. Dental implants also benefit general oral health because they do not have to be anchored to other teeth, like bridges. .
• Having all of your teeth can make you more self-confident. You don’t worry that people notice that you have teeth missing. • When teeth are lost, the area of the jawbone that held those teeth starts to dissolve. Implants help to preserve the bone and the shape of your jaw. • Losing teeth can lead to changes in your speech. This also can affect your self-confidence n.
Because implants fuse to your jawbone, they provide stable support for artificial teeth. Dentures and bridges mounted to implants won’t slip or shift in your mouth — an especially important benefit when eating and speaking. This secure fit helps the dentures and bridges — as well as individual crowns placed over implants — feel more natural than conventional bridges or dentures. For some people, ordinary bridges and dentures are simply not comfortable or even possible, due to sore spots, poor ridges or gagging. In addition, ordinary bridges must be attached to teeth on either side of the space left by the missing tooth. An advantage of implants is that no adjacent teeth need to be prepared or ground down to hold your new replacement tooth/teeth in place. To receive implants, you need to have healthy gums and adequate bone to support the implant. .
Not every wisdom tooth is unhealthy, and only a dental expert can determine if an extraction is necessary. Wisdom teeth that need to be extracted are those which are trapped under the jawbone and those which are pressed against one another increasing the chances of tooth decay and infections. Wisdom teeth could contribute to a variety of oral health conditions that include occlusal problems, gum disease, tooth decay, and pain.
Wisdom tooth extraction is recommended in cases of decayed, un-erupted or wrongly erupting last molar teeth. Symptoms of the above may be pain while opening their mouth or chewing food, severe or dull nagging tooth ache, ear/jaw pain, difficulty in eating due to swelling of gums around the tooth.